Classroom Response

A Classroom Response System (CRS) is technology that helps to promote class participation. CRS systems allows students to answer questions posed by the lecturer in class with the summary results displayed almost immediately on screen. NUS uses three CRS:

Clickers

NUS uses Turning Point classroom clickers.

This system consists of a radio frequency receiver connected to a computer via USB, a set of response units (one is pictured on the top right) and the TurningPoint software which enables the interactive responses.

PeerQuestions

Archipelago

Archipelago is a lightweight web application created to inject interactivity into classes.Students, in team or solo, can response to a wide variety of questions posted by the instructor. Real time collation tools helps the instructor to make sense of the student responses on the fly.